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COMMENTARY | According to Mike Tomkins of Imaging Resource, digital camera maker Canon is in a bit of a bind. Its high-end Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras are growing in popularity, but compact cameras -- the basic point-and-shoot variety -- are starting to tank except in "emerging markets." Which is code for third-world countries, where most people can't afford SLRs anyway.

My iPhone 4S takes fantastic pictures. Are they are good as a DSLR, of course not. But it takes just as good, if not better pictures than most of the point-and-shoot cameras out there. Why spend ~$130 on a P&S camera when I could pay $199 to take better pictures, AND do a lot more? A smartphone is essentially a computer in your pocket.

It makes perfect sense that this is happening. I have an 8MP camera on one of my mobile phones. The other has a 4MP camera. They both take very good pictures that look like they were taken with a decent point and shoot camera,without having to carry a point and shoot camera in the first place.

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